tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6995489402588479850.post8425975830483071781..comments2024-03-22T08:22:04.315+00:00Comments on a memory less ephemeral: film review: The Imitation GameSusan Stepneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06533629704705591866noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6995489402588479850.post-60978678189615854312015-01-19T10:30:29.547+00:002015-01-19T10:30:29.547+00:00He invented what we now call the Turing Machine *b...He invented what we now call the Turing Machine *before* WWII. His paper "On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungs problem" was published in 1937.Susan Stepneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06533629704705591866noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6995489402588479850.post-17297889015919792832015-01-19T07:33:29.813+00:002015-01-19T07:33:29.813+00:00The main thing is, though, if you like those littl...The main thing is, though, if you like those little electronic gadgets that you carry around everywhere and use all the time, you have Turing to thank for them. It was what he did during the war that lead to computers. Thinking machines were his thing. In fact, computers were originally called Turing machines.<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08474551845661031816noreply@blogger.com